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Definition of Neuks
1. neuk [n] - See also: neuk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neuks
Literary usage of Neuks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Burns Country: By Charles S. Dougall ... With Fifty Full-page by Charles Shirra Dougall (1904)
"... CHAPTER XV "THE STREETS AND neuks o' KILLIE" " The simple Bard, unbroke by
rules of art, He pours the wild effusions of the heart: And if inspir'd, ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"way neuks as mtld glens; they arc commonly strangely clad, with long hair and
quick eyes. AULD WIFE.—A man having much the nature of an old wife about him. ..."
3. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1877)
"... trickin thee, Johnie lad, Trickin thee, Johnie lad—trickin thee, Johnie lad.
Thro' the stocks an' barn-neuks, trickin thee, Johnie lad. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"The thought of the serpent may, we think, be traced in the twisted limbs and
sinuous neuks of the demons of the Sistine—there are panther-like heads, ..."
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